SC asks Government to prepare plan for eradication of leprosy

•  The Supreme Court has asked the Central Government to prepare a comprehensive policy for implementation of a plan to eradicate leprosy from the country.
•  A three-judge SC bench asked the Government to submit the plan within four weeks.
•  The bench told the Centre that people are required to successfully implement the government policies at the ground level.
•  It was hearing a PIL which had rapped the Government authorities for their apathy in eradicating leprosy, saying despite it being curable, the disease still remains a stigma. 
• The PIL had mentioned that leprosy affects over 1 lakh 25,000 people in the country annually and government has failed to eliminate the disease despite medical treatment available since 1981.